Bernard Manning.
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Bill Sikes
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Bernard Manning.
Bernard Manning has pegged out, aged 76. That's a shame. Another nail in the coffin of variety, a great step for'd for boring mundanity.
Bernard Manning.
i found him very funny :-6
Bernard Manning.
Bill Sikes;640202 wrote: Bernard Manning has pegged out, aged 76. That's a shame. Another nail in the coffin of variety, a great step for'd for boring mundanity.
In memorandum:
Two people talking in a pub: "I looked out of the window and saw six youths kicking ***** out of my mother-in-law."
"Good God! Did you get involved?"
"Well I thought about it, but they seemed to be managing..."
I always thought his humour was a bit on the corny side, but he carried it off with such panache, if he played to an audience of just one at the end of a pier, he'd have that person in stitches in under a minute. Like Bob Monkhouse or Terry Wogan, he was a real pro. People tried to copy his style but they came a long second. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did - I can't imagine what the sugar level in his blood was. R.I.P. I mean it.
In memorandum:
Two people talking in a pub: "I looked out of the window and saw six youths kicking ***** out of my mother-in-law."
"Good God! Did you get involved?"
"Well I thought about it, but they seemed to be managing..."
I always thought his humour was a bit on the corny side, but he carried it off with such panache, if he played to an audience of just one at the end of a pier, he'd have that person in stitches in under a minute. Like Bob Monkhouse or Terry Wogan, he was a real pro. People tried to copy his style but they came a long second. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did - I can't imagine what the sugar level in his blood was. R.I.P. I mean it.
Bernard Manning.
As his biographer said, "Until his dying day, he didn't understand what all the fuss was about". He damned well should have done, he must have been told often enough.
Barry Cryer's quoted on the BBC news saying "The thing about Bernard was that he looked funny, he sounded funny and he had excellent timing. It was just what he actually said that could be worrying". I'd go along with that.
Barry Cryer's quoted on the BBC news saying "The thing about Bernard was that he looked funny, he sounded funny and he had excellent timing. It was just what he actually said that could be worrying". I'd go along with that.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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Uncle Kram
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Bernard Manning.
Although he appeared offensive, I think he had a softer side. One of my mates worked at his club and said he was polite, charming, and not at all racist away from the mike. I heard he did a Radio 4 feature about Mother Teresa. I was surprised by that. He was controversial but extremely influential
Personally, I liked him, simply because he always made me laugh.
Personally, I liked him, simply because he always made me laugh.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN PUN
Bernard Manning.
Uncle Kram;640968 wrote: Although he appeared offensive, I think he had a softer side. One of my mates worked at his club and said he was polite, charming, and not at all racist away from the mike. I heard he did a Radio 4 feature about Mother Teresa. I was surprised by that. He was controversial but extremely influential
Personally, I liked him, simply because he always made me laugh.If he was impolite, distasteful and racist in front of the mike then that qualifies him as an impolite, distasteful and racist broadcaster, surely. Only if he had rectified those faults could he be considered polite, charming and not at all racist in any setting at all.
Essentially he was cruel, and I can't stand cruel humour. It has no potential to make me do anything other than wince with embarrassment. Here he is in full flow (make the obvious expansion of "F" yourself, please):There's a fellow, John Lennon, He wanted peace, he F got it.
Married a Jap, Yoko Poko, right ugly bastard, face like a blistered **** pot.
What's two miles long and eats bananas? The F dole queue in Bradford.That's none of it humour. That's malicious aggressive provocation. Paying to watch someone misbehave like that in public is as barbaric and obsolete as rat baiting.
Personally, I liked him, simply because he always made me laugh.If he was impolite, distasteful and racist in front of the mike then that qualifies him as an impolite, distasteful and racist broadcaster, surely. Only if he had rectified those faults could he be considered polite, charming and not at all racist in any setting at all.
Essentially he was cruel, and I can't stand cruel humour. It has no potential to make me do anything other than wince with embarrassment. Here he is in full flow (make the obvious expansion of "F" yourself, please):There's a fellow, John Lennon, He wanted peace, he F got it.
Married a Jap, Yoko Poko, right ugly bastard, face like a blistered **** pot.
What's two miles long and eats bananas? The F dole queue in Bradford.That's none of it humour. That's malicious aggressive provocation. Paying to watch someone misbehave like that in public is as barbaric and obsolete as rat baiting.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Bernard Manning.
Well he made a lot of money doing it, as do others like chubby brown, so there must be plenty of people who enjoy it.
Bernard Manning.
I enjoyed his humour.....well some of it!
I live a couple of miles from his club, i'd never go because i was scared he'd zoom in on me and take the micky.
I'm not from an ethnic background just a little shy, he sought vulnerable people and made fun of them.
As Butters says, he made a lot of money so he must have been doing it right!
I live a couple of miles from his club, i'd never go because i was scared he'd zoom in on me and take the micky.
I'm not from an ethnic background just a little shy, he sought vulnerable people and made fun of them.
As Butters says, he made a lot of money so he must have been doing it right!
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henrychalder
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Bernard Manning.
Bernard would make me chuckle now and again but he was never a really great comedian. I think people perceived him as being funnier than he actually was because he symbolised freedom for comedians to make jokes out of any race creed or colour.
I like the cutting humour that are on the fringes, I like Irish, Jewish, Religious and sexualility etc jokes. I dont believe Irish are thick, I dont believe all Jews are tight or that black mens appendages are larger than anyone else's, yet I still find those stereo type jokes highly amusing.
The most homophobic jokes I've ever heard were on sketch's from the 'Little Britain' series by a gay and a bisexual.
I've never been to the Edinburgh fringe festival but what I've been hearing about it its become a PC arty farty comedy show by people who aren't particularly funny, in the same way a pile of bricks were put in the Tate Gallery and calling it art.
I do draw the line when Billy Connelly made humour out of a Ken Bigley held hostage by Muslims who later was decapitated or a Joke a heard the other week on the program 'Mock the Week' that was about the Russian dissident that was poisoned by Pulonium.
Since the PC idiots and the brainwashed have interfeered with British comedy our comedy has taken a nose dive, it seems we must listen to those stand up comedians or comediens who want to make tiring jokes about womens problems, giving birth, George Bush, Blair etc etc and all with a lefty slant, they are utterly boring. Didnt Lenny Bruce, one of the most funniest comedians make jokes out of Blacks, Spicks and Jews?
Anyone who found Bernards jokes offensive must surely be a complete and utter dick, we as a nation have always laughed out ourselves so why should it be changed for a few who get so easily upset? like getting upset when a blackboard is referred to as a poxy blackboard or black coffee.
I wonder what Lenny would have said about politics gagging stand up comedians if he came back from the dead?
I like the cutting humour that are on the fringes, I like Irish, Jewish, Religious and sexualility etc jokes. I dont believe Irish are thick, I dont believe all Jews are tight or that black mens appendages are larger than anyone else's, yet I still find those stereo type jokes highly amusing.
The most homophobic jokes I've ever heard were on sketch's from the 'Little Britain' series by a gay and a bisexual.
I've never been to the Edinburgh fringe festival but what I've been hearing about it its become a PC arty farty comedy show by people who aren't particularly funny, in the same way a pile of bricks were put in the Tate Gallery and calling it art.
I do draw the line when Billy Connelly made humour out of a Ken Bigley held hostage by Muslims who later was decapitated or a Joke a heard the other week on the program 'Mock the Week' that was about the Russian dissident that was poisoned by Pulonium.
Since the PC idiots and the brainwashed have interfeered with British comedy our comedy has taken a nose dive, it seems we must listen to those stand up comedians or comediens who want to make tiring jokes about womens problems, giving birth, George Bush, Blair etc etc and all with a lefty slant, they are utterly boring. Didnt Lenny Bruce, one of the most funniest comedians make jokes out of Blacks, Spicks and Jews?
Anyone who found Bernards jokes offensive must surely be a complete and utter dick, we as a nation have always laughed out ourselves so why should it be changed for a few who get so easily upset? like getting upset when a blackboard is referred to as a poxy blackboard or black coffee.
I wonder what Lenny would have said about politics gagging stand up comedians if he came back from the dead?
Bernard Manning.
Lenny Bruce wasn't ever a funny comedian, he was an edgy comedian. He was a social commentator. Telling jokes wasn't one of his strong points. He didn't make jokes out of Blacks, Spicks and Jews, he made a pivotal moment in race relations by demonstrating the power of words, just as Mandy Rice Davis did on the subject of class. They both broke down a doorway into a new world by pointing out that the Emperor had no clothes on.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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henrychalder
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Bernard Manning.
Isn't social commentary and making people laugh not a funny stand up comedian? because I certainly found Lenny Bruce funny, I've got some of his sketches downloaded. I dont actually like jokes, whenever someone comes up to me and say's, those words, 'ooh, I heard a joke the other day you must hear it', and in my mind I groan but of course I laugh out of politeness but the one I heard last night was quite good...A man walked into his house with a duck under his arm, he stood beside his wife and said, "this is the pig I've been shagging", she replies, "thats a duck!", he looks at her and says, "I was talking to the duck" 
Or there was the comment on 'mock the week' regarding two community police officers aged just sixteen years of age in the news recently, 'there just kissograms for Paedophiles really' :wah:
Its a safe comment, that is fit for the new type of sanitized comedians, quite funny though.
I heard a stand up comedian on Radio 4 who I cant remember his name but I've seen him on TV, he now has a new slant on politically correct comedy where he takes up the concepts of arguments about what is regarded as racist and homophobic jokes, he dissects the arguments put forward by the boring politically correct and shows their arguments to be illogical but amusing to great laughter and cheers from the audience, he shows himself to be highly intelligent and had me in stitches, I suppose you would regard him as a social commentator.
Have you ever listened to Russell Brand? He's quite amusing when reading articles from the Sun newspaper, but he always has to go one step too far when it comes to sex, its as if he's only just discovered sex as some teenage boy, he's far more offensive than Bernard ever was.
Maybe Bernards DVDs should not only have a cert of 18 plus but a warning that the people of a nervous disposition shouldn't watch
Or there was the comment on 'mock the week' regarding two community police officers aged just sixteen years of age in the news recently, 'there just kissograms for Paedophiles really' :wah:
Its a safe comment, that is fit for the new type of sanitized comedians, quite funny though.
I heard a stand up comedian on Radio 4 who I cant remember his name but I've seen him on TV, he now has a new slant on politically correct comedy where he takes up the concepts of arguments about what is regarded as racist and homophobic jokes, he dissects the arguments put forward by the boring politically correct and shows their arguments to be illogical but amusing to great laughter and cheers from the audience, he shows himself to be highly intelligent and had me in stitches, I suppose you would regard him as a social commentator.
Have you ever listened to Russell Brand? He's quite amusing when reading articles from the Sun newspaper, but he always has to go one step too far when it comes to sex, its as if he's only just discovered sex as some teenage boy, he's far more offensive than Bernard ever was.
Maybe Bernards DVDs should not only have a cert of 18 plus but a warning that the people of a nervous disposition shouldn't watch